5 DAYS TANZANIA CAMPING SAFARI 

Tarangire or Manyara / Ngorongoro and Serengeti National Park.

Day 0: Arrival Day.

On your arrival at Kilimanjaro or Arusha airport you will meet the office representative, transfer to your lodge for overnight on this day before safari begin on next day.

Distance from airport: 50 km

Accommodation at : Venice Hotel

Meals Plane: BB (Bed and breakfast) dinner by own.

 

Day 1: To Tarangire or Manyara.

Depart from Arusha drive to Tarangire National Park or to Lake Manyara National Park. It will take you approximately two hours to reach the park entry gate. Tarangire well known as home of Elephants, the photography safari will start from the main gate, impalas, giraffes, zebras, etc., will be observing at the beginning of entry at the gate. Your guide will lead you to the Tarangire river whereby the abundant of elephants are common seen, proceed with game drive till afternoon, lunch at the picnic site on the top of Tarangire river, afternoon game drive, evening drive to mto wa mbu at Fanaka campsite for dinner and overnight.

 

If your safari option is to lake Manyara park, there at the entry gate will start by primates on trees at the green forest near the entry gate, Manyara the small but has its own unique beauty known as tree climbing lion, this photography safari will take you to observe giraffes, elephants, antelopes, and lions on tree if lucky as per park’s  slogan, picnic lunch at the designed site at lake shore, Manyara is great place for bird watchers, from small and colorful to big ones, late evening drive to Fanaka campsite for dinner and overnight.

Distance from Arusha: 120km, 2 hours drive.

Game drive Duration: 6 hours drive.

Distance to the Camp: 1.5  hour drive.

Meals of the day: Lunch and Dinner.

Accommodation Type: Camping at Fanaka.

Transport: 4×4 Land cruiser.

 

Day 2: To Serengeti via Ngorongoro.

After your breakfast in the morning, drive direct to Serengeti national park with the packed lunch, almost 1 hour to reach the entry gate of Ngorongoro, enter to Ngorongoro, 5 km later reach the crater view point, stop for some information, proceed to Serengeti with animals viewing on the way, due to stopping on-route for animals viewing, it will take you almost 4 hours to the exit gate of Ngorongoro, picnic lunch will be under nicest tree before proceed to exit point at Naab hill gate. You will exit Ngorongoro and enter Serengeti at the same gate. Entry to Serengeti, the game drive starts at the main gate, drive to central Serengeti 45km, have on-route and evening game drive heading to seronera campsite for overnight.                                                                                                                                                Distance to Serengeti: 220km, almost 5  hours drive

Game drive Duration: 6 hours

Meals of the day:  Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation Type: Camping at Seronera campsite

Transport: 4×4 Land cruiser

Day 3: To Serengeti.

Today you will have a full day game drive in central Serengeti, searching for the rest big 5 and other animals, Serengeti national park is wide park with almost 15000sq km, every side of the park has its seasonal visit depend on period of time of the year (months) due migration animals, we are staying at central Serengeti, this area is annual visited area because has its resident animals here, your full day game drives allows your to have different animal viewing and its habits. I n this day arrange with your driver guide about lunch, you may go with picnic or back to the camp for hot lunch, afternoon and evening game drive, experience your game viewing from sunrise to sundown, late evening back to the camp for overnight.

Distance to Serengeti: 150km, almost 10  hours  drive

Game drive Duration: 8 hours

Meals of the day:  Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation Type: Camping at Seronera campsite

Transport: 4×4 Land cruiser

 

Day 4: Serengeti-Ngorongoro.

Your breakfast will be early in the morning, go for game drive for about 5 hours, Serengeti well known as endless plain, the abundant of carnivores such as hyena, lion, leopard, jackals, cheetah etc. Rocks found in the area are home of different animals like hyrax, lion even leopard et. afternoon back to the camp for lunch, while you are having lunch, camping equipment will loaded in the jeep, thereafter drive with game drive on-route to Ngorongoro, exit and enter to the same gate drive to Ngorongoro simba campsite.                                                                                                                                                                 Distance to Ngorongoro: 150km, almost 3 hour drive

Game drive Duration: 6 hours

Meals of the day: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation Type: Ngorongoro Simba campsite

Transport: 4×4 Land cruiser

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater -Arusha.

Early in the morning have your breakfast, thereafter descend 600 meters to the crater floor, Ngorongoro crater the self-dependent ecosystem, home of carnivores, antelopes and herbivores. If lucky you may see the big 5 in Ngorongoro, this includes lion, leopard, rhino, elephants and buffaloes. At the Magadi lake, several water birds are found here this includes the beautiful flamingoes, herons, pelicans etc. The Lerai forest, home of baboons and monkeys, elephants, bushbucks, waterbucks, even leopard etc. the size of crater floor 260sq km, The Munge River is the source of fresh water in the area, swamps are found here, the place to see hippopotamus, the open areas where you will the grazing animals. Afternoon you will taken to the picnic site, is the same place to see hippos up close, after lunch have on-route game drive ascend and drive direct to Arusha or airport.

Distance to Ngorongoro: 150km, almost 3 hour drive

Game drive Duration: 6 hours

Meals of the day: Breakfast, Lunch.

Accommodation Type: Ngorongoro Simba campsite

Transport: 4×4 Land cruiser